Hail in Mountain Lake · Jul 25, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 25, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 14th most severe storm Mountain Lake has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Mountain Lake saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
The storm in context
Where Jul 25, 2026 sits in Mountain Lake's hail record.
This was Mountain Lake's 12th recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Jul 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mountain Lake at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mountain Lake: the same system put hail over 303 other tracked cities, 48 of them in Minnesota. Nearest: Windom (5 miles west, up to 0.75"); Saint James (17 miles east, up to 0"); Jackson (21 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Mountain Lake storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
For this storm over Mountain Lake, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Mountain Lake roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Mountain Lake hail history
Other storms in Mountain Lake.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jun 29, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 25, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface May 18, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 23, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 13, 2026
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